Elm Street 149.pdf
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Topographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year):
March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31B-164 Easthampton NTH.646 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 149 Elm Street Historic Name: Eames
Home and Sage Place Uses: Present: Apartments Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1886 Source: Deeds & Wills Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Converted to apartments, ca. 1935. Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.376 acres Setting: House sits on a raised lot on a residential block of Elm Street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [149 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.646 ___ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much
space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate
the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. Although this house has an unclear history suggesting that there may be portions of an earlier
house remaining, it is from the exterior a Queen Anne style house with an appropriate date of 1886. It is two-and-a-half stories high under a side-gable roof with a jerkin head on the
east and two interior chimneys. There is a cross gable bay on the south façade three stories high with an open porch on the third story framed by an arch and brackets. First and second
stories are square bays. The roof on the south extends to create a second floor porch adjacent to the cross-gable. This porch rests on turned posts and had an intricate railing above
the first floor entry porch which also rests on turned posts and has brackets at its eaves. There is a shallow pediment on the roof of this porch. At the southeast corner of the house
is an angled bay of three-sides. The house is clapboard sided but bands of shingles separate the stories and fill some of the gable ends. The house is fancifully asymmetrical as represented
by dormers on the west elevation and south façade: on the west is a shed roof dormer, on the south, one dormer has a hipped roof and one has a front-gable. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Discuss
the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. From
Form B of 1977: ““References to a house on this lot, several times designated the ‘Sage Place,’ go back to the 1860s or earlier, when records are obscured in the wills of William Clark
Sr. and William Clark and to a larger property in this location owned however briefly by Emily Sage from 1846-1850. It is also referred to as the William Clark homestead. Then Sarah
Clark, widow of Newman Clark, in 1886 moved into the house from 41 Elm, she calls it ‘my new house,’ but she acquired the property from Miriam Clark who received life tenure from William
Clark in 1868. Parts of the structure probably date in the 1840s. During the ownership of the Eames family 1935-1958 the house was used as a guest house called Eames Home and frequented
by guests of Smith College students.” BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Beers, F. W. County Atlas of Hampshire Massachusetts, New York, 1873. Hales, John G. Plan of the Town or Northampton
in the County of Hampshire, 1831. Miller, D. L. Atlas of the City of Northampton and Town of Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, 1895. Walker, George H. and Company.
Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860. Registry of Deeds: 1544/451 1968, 1443/107 1964, 1443/97
1964, 1286/450 1958, 903/426 1935, 355/285 1880, 294/149 1872, 112/352 1846